All our network jacks in rooms are “wall warts” That is they are not in the wall. So like Ken, we just drilled a hole in the box and added a coax connector. Only about 20% of our students use it, we also found out.
Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Meggitt Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wall plate AP and Coax line sharing box Hello Alan, My group recently added Wall Plate AP's to an entire dorm. We had a similar issue with old cable TV Coax that supplied TV to the dorms. Rather than abandon or remove it entirely we mounted bulkheads into the side of the boxes that allowed coax connections from the side while still allowing room for the wall plate AP to mount to the box. The modifications required some drilling and a little cleanup but aside from that they could be completed quickly and with minimal effort. depending on the size of the boxes you have in your rooms this may or may not work for you. On 1/23/2018 11:03 AM, Alan D Wang wrote: Hello, We are looking to possibly re-design the wireless deployment in several of our older dorms this summer but would like to do this with minimal need to move and/or add new junction boxes and cable runs. One issue we will run into is that in newer rooms/common rooms the junction box that holds the data drop that will be used for the wall plate AP is also the same box that has the cable tv connection in it. Has anyone here come up with a solution for mounting the wall plate AP that still allows access to the cable tv connection? Depending on the building age, some of these boxes are single gang and some are dual gang. Thanks -- Alan Wang Network Analyst Binghamton University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. -- Ken Meggitt OIT Network Engineering x7575 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
